different between foal vs foaf

English

Etymology

From Middle English fole, from Old English fola, from Proto-West Germanic *fol?, from Proto-Germanic *fulô, from pre-Germanic *pl?Hon-, from Proto-Indo-European *p?lH- (“animal young”) (cognate with Saterland Frisian Foole, West Frisian fôle, foalle, Dutch veulen, German Low German Fohl, German Fohlen, Swedish fåle; compare also Ancient Greek ????? (pôlos), Latin pullus, Albanian pelë (“mare”), Old Armenian ??? (ul, “kid, fawn”). Related to filly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??l/, /f??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fo?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

foal (plural foals)

1. A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.
2. (mining, historical) A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub.

Translations

Verb

foal (third-person singular simple present foals, present participle foaling, simple past and past participle foaled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:

     All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.

   • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, Chapter 22^[1]:

     "Well," said John, "I don't believe there is a better pair of horses in the country, and right grieved I am to part with them, but they are not alike; the black one is the most perfect temper I ever knew; I suppose he has never known a hard word or a blow since he was foaled, and all his pleasure seems to be to do what you wish […]

Translations

See also

• colt
• filly
• horseling
• mare
• stallion

Anagrams

• AFOL, Olaf, loaf

English

Noun

foaf

1. Alternative form of FOAF

Anagrams

• offa